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Proview fails to secure iPad ban

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A Shanghai court yesterday rejected a Shenzhen electronics firm's request to halt the sale in the city of Apple's tablet computers, pending an appeal by the US computer giant in an infringement lawsuit over the iPad name.

Shanghai Pudong New Area People's court said in a statement that it had suspended proceedings to wait for the result of a separate case filed by Proview Technology in the Guangdong provincial high court.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Proview asked judges to issue an order taking Apple iPads off the shelves in Shanghai stores.

Proview contends that Apple infringed on Proview's 'IPAD' trademark, which was registered in Taiwan, on the mainland and in several other places between 2000 and 2004.

'We can't make any comment on the court ruling,' said Proview lawyer Ma Dongxiao after yesterday's decision was handed down. But he added that 'this is not the final ruling'.

Ma said the company and its lawyers were preparing for the next hearing with the Guangdong high court, but refused to give more details.

The chairman of Proview Technology, Rowell Yang Long-san, declined to comment.

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